Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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July 1, 1979

The Gods Must Not Know Us

By Linda Gregg

The signifying clouds at dawn fill me. Open my spirit. The shining of sun and moon morning after morning makes my heart serene.        FU SHENG Shang-shu ta chuan All the different […]

July 1, 1979

Eurydice

By Linda Gregg

I linger, knowing you are eager (having seen the strange world where I live) to return to your friends wearing the bells and singing the songs which are my mourning. […]

July 1, 1979

Different Not Less

By Linda Gregg

All of it changes at evening equal to the darkening, so that night things may have their time. Each gives over where its nature is essential. The river loses all […]